- The user base seems to grow. The income doesn’t. This is probably linked to the global financial crisis which affects donors, sponsors and advertisers. A donation campaign could be organized.

- 2 new dedicated servers, one in Canada and one in England might soon add to the two servers we already have in Germany.

- The number of people still running Daryna is surprisingly high. The number of people running Elyssa is surprisingly low. Two releases are actively maintained, the latest release (currently Linux Mint 6 Felicia) and the latest LTS release (currently Linux Mint 5). Users are encouraged to either follow the latest release and to upgrade twice a year, or to stick to the latest LTS release and to upgrade every 3 years.

- The number of people still running Daryna is surprisingly high. The number of people running Elyssa is surprisingly low. Two releases are actively maintained, the latest release (currently Linux Mint 6 Felicia) and the latest LTS release (currently Linux Mint 5). Users are encouraged to either follow the latest release and to upgrade twice a year, or to stick to the latest LTS release and to upgrade every 3 years.

A. Daryna was very good.B. Auto mounting partitions was very nice.C. I fear this is indicative of the number of new users that Linux Mint has gathered. Many new users may not have the knowledge or inclination to upgrade with the cycle. Hopefully Daryna will outlive their hardware.

Global Economic Downturn - I know that is why I haven't been able to contribute yet. I will, it is just freeing up the funds. I haven't moved to using this as my primary system (mostly because I must continue to support MS products), but plan on doing so soon. VirtualBox is so good now that I can use that to run all my required MS items, so I will be able to stick with Mint as my personal system/host.